Wondering....

[roxy]

Has anyone taken Paxil for a while and then stopped taking it?

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[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

I have. Paxil was the devil.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree. Did you have a hard time when you stopped takiing it? Any negative reactions? It fucked me up so bad around my periods that I decided to stop taking it. It's been about three weeks, I think.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

It was a while back, and memory tends to fade a bit... but yeah, I seem to remember being extremely depressed for a while. I think the longer you take it, the longer the reactions last. But while I was on it? I couldn't have an orgasm. Now THAT was depressing.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

omg--that's horrible! That would depress the hell out of me too.

I just got progressively more psychotic with every period. I was getting suicidal, so I figured enough was enough. I can actually track it, reading through old posts--once a month this public breakdown, yes? *grin* Last time, I got scared and I stopped taking them. So far, I get headaches and a vague kind of flat feeling . That, I can live with.

[carson-leigh.livejournal.com]

My mother did, it was a horrible experience for us all.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

When she stopped taking it? If you don't mind, can you tell me why?

[carson-leigh.livejournal.com]

Sorry it took me so long to answer. I haven't been getting my notifications.

Yeah, after she stopped taking it she started having horrible mood swings. One minute she was all happy and the next she would be screaming at you. It was pretty horrible and lasted a couple of months. She actually had to be medicated to control the mood swings. Not something any of us want to go through again.

[like-cheap-wine.livejournal.com]

I stopped taking Paxil two days ago. I wasn't expecting anything bad, since I planned it in advance and progressively diminished my dayly dose, but reading the comments on your post makes me nervous. <_<

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any bad reactions but lately it's been a little weird. I feel a little off kilter emotionally, a little flat. And these headaches. I rarely get them but now, a lot!
I took it for anxiety attacks. So far I haven't had any attacks, knock wood-grained laminate!

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

If you've done a taper off, you should be fine. It's stopping it cold turkey that causes the psychosis. Unfortunately, when I stopped, I was stupid and impatient and just went off it, splat. And was absolutely horrifically miserable for about four days.

[like-cheap-wine.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I feel a lot less nervous now. :)

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

I took Paxil for five years and then went off it cold turkey.

Which was, looking back, incredibly stupid of me. I had a miserable four days during which I was irritable, got brain zapped constantly and just nauseated all the time. Then I was fine, but man - there has to be a better way to get off that stuff. Effexor, by the way, is ten times worse, even if you step-down to get off.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

yeah. I've been taking it for three years. I just wanted to be sure that no reactions would suddenly smack me in the brain. I'm having minimal reaction so far.

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

can't be as bad as.... heheh I'm on effexor but it works for me so I'm good

This place and it's forum is a good resource.

http://www.crazymeds.org/

http://www.crazymeds.org/paxil.html

for paxil, best of luck

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Hey thanks! I can always count on you for the good links!

[bittermint.livejournal.com]

Paxil is evil. I had horrible side effects when I was on it, and I getting off it was sheer, unadulterated hell. They should have never allowed it on the market. I felt worse when I was taking it than I did just having the damn depression.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Damn, I think I was pretty lucky in so far as reactions to Paxil goes. It made me insane when I was pms-img but on the whole not much more than that. Mind you, that was *enough*.

[tabaqui]

Uh, no.
Heh.
Um, dude. Yaoi? Or however it's spelled?
OMG.
Dude.
:)
*bounce*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

So. *koff*
We're cool?
*shuffles feet*

[tabaqui]

Ooooooooh, yeah.
:)

[onelittlesleep.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in highschool my mother was convinced I ought to try a antidepressant for some pretty usual teenage angst stuff. And after a month of it, I went off. There was this one night that I was on it, where everything just felt *dead*. It was so awful. I was more depressed than I'd ever been. I ended up calling a friend of mine and asking her to convince me that it wasn't true, that everything wasn't dead inside and empty. It really messed me up. But when I went off, I was fine. Paxil is just like that for some people, I guess.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Geez-thank god I never had that. I slept around the clock for the first two weeks I was on it, but at the time, I really needed the sleep so, it was okay.

[droid-1.livejournal.com]

Yep. You have to progressively cut the dose in half, take that for two weeks, then cut it in half again, take that for two weeks, then you can quit.

It gave me what felt like electric shocks when I was cutting down.

I am currently back on paxil, since without it, I become entirely too angry over what amounts to nothing.

I think my recent episode which resulted in my changing my journal name is a result of having cut back on buspar.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I was taking it for anxiety but I did notice at first that it made me entirely *too* agreeable, as in doormat. Much to the little fam's chagrin, that wore off. *g*

[droid-1.livejournal.com]

Heh, heh!
I'm not normally agreeable at all, though. :/

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Also, again, I *love* the new handle!!

[droid-1.livejournal.com]

Tanky, agin!